Month: July 2024

My Top 10 Hits – Week 388

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 22, 2024

Every Monday I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay from the previous week. It’s the continuation of a weekly hobby that goes back over 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday July 21ST 2024 – the 388TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	13	Somebody Like Me [3RD week @ # 1]	Caleb & John Ft. Cain
2	3	11	Beautiful Life	Pat Barrett
3	2	7	Take You At Your Word	Cody Carnes
4	6	3	Nothin’ Sweeter	TobyMac
5	7	5	Miracle Child	Brandon Lake
6	4	4	Good Day	Forrest Frank
7	5	13	The Prodigal	Josiah Queen
8	10	2	Take It All Back	Tauren Wells
9	–	1	My God Can	Katy Nichole Ft. Naomi Raine
10	8	33	Lead On Good Shepherd	Patrick Mayberry

# 1 This Week In:
2023 – “Big God” – Terrian
2022 – “Getting Started” – Jeremy Camp
2021 – “Be Alright” – Evan Craft Ft. Danny Gokey
2020 – “No Impossible With You” – I AM THEY
2019 – “Prize Worth Fighting For” – Jamie Kimmett
2018 – “Grace Got You” – MercyMe
2017 – “Wonder” – Hillsong United

TOP 40 OF 400 – This October I’ll present my Top 40 songs of the first 400 weeks of this chart. I miss I AM THEY. It’s been 4 years since they were last on my chart with their danceable # 1 smash “No Impossible With You”. It spent 3 weeks at # 1, and it was my # 1 smash of the entire Summer Of 2020. But that isn’t enough to make it onto my Top 40 Of 400. It fell just short.

SPOTIFY – You can hear “My Top 10 Hits” anytime simply by accessing my CountUp playlist on Spotify. All 10 hits are there from top to bottom. You can hear them in order from # 1 to # 10, or you can shuffle them. My playlist will be updated every weekend (usually before the actual chart is presented here on Mondays). You can link to it here.

Your likes, follows, and comments are always appreciated. Thank You for being part of my online ministry to share God’s Good News and win souls for Christ through His music. God used loud music on the radio to reach me in August of 2006. I’ve been testifying about Him ever since.

Be blessed my friends ! May our God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Tags Blog, Chart, Christian, God, Jesus, KLOVE, Music, Radio, Spotify, TheJoyFM, WayFM, WGTS, Z883

Bible Blogging Christian Church God Ministry Scripture

Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 21, 2024

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday July 21ST 2024, and this is the day that our LORD has made. Let us rejoice. Let us be glad in it. Let us celebrate this great new day of believing, following, trusting, loving, and being more like our Lord + Savior Jesus Christ. Let us love our neighbor as ourself.

I awoke in Homestead Florida this morning. (I’ve been here since Thursday morning.) I’m looking forward to a glorious morning at my former home church, as well as fellowship at a local area restaurant afterwards. (Probably Mexican.)

Back home in Sebring Florida we’re diving-in to Hebrews on Sunday mornings, and Nehemiah on Friday nights at Bible Study. Studying Nehemiah is bittersweet for me. It was 17 summers ago in 2007 during my first year of my first church family (in Homestead) that we enjoyed a 9-week study of Nehemiah at Bible Study at night. It was the debut of our brand-new Executive Pastor at the time, and he led Nehemiah every Wednesday night. It was groundbreaking Scripture for me. He and I became instant friends. We’re the same age (3½ months apart), and we’re both originally from the Washington D.C. area. We’re both Washington Redskins (Commanders) fans. We had a good but too short run together.

Since the start of April and for the next month – I’m presenting the full transcription of my recent Jude message series consisting of two sermons – “Jude & Judgment” (Verses 1-11), and “Jude & Jury” (Verses 12-25). I preached them to my Homestead Florida church family on November 26TH 2023 and December 03RD 2023 respectively. Links are provided for Parts 1 to 8 of “Jude & Judgment” over on my SERMONS page. (It’s Sermon 56.) Here’s Part 6 of “Jude & Jury”:

[CONTINUE SERMON]

This is our believer’s Communion. We believe that we have one living and true God – in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. 3 Persons – 1 God. Each is God individually; yet, they are one God together. One God who is almighty. One God who never changes with the times. One God who is eternal.

And so this believer’s Communion is open for everyone who hears me – everyone who believes this. If you believe that we are now under the eternal protection of our Shepherd – then I invite you to accept this bread and this juice.

I invite you to join me in honoring our 3-in-1 God – who reigns – now and forever.

Our God comes to us – where we are. Today – I will come to you – where you are – with these elements. We’ll accept them together as a church body.

[Distribute elements.]

Let us take this bread, and know that it represents the sacred body of Christ that was given up for us on that cross. We take this bread in remembrance of Him.

Let us take this juice, and know that it represents the precious blood of Christ that was shed for us on that cross. We take this juice in honor of Him.

Let us bow our heads. Let us pray:

Thank You God for this Glorious moment – in this place – at this time. Thank You Lord for being the unchangeable and unstoppable God that You are – Creator, Christ, and Spirit as One.

Thank You Lord for Your awesome presence in our lives – and Your intentional purpose for our lives. May all of Your blessings of beauty and miracles of marvel constantly strengthen our faith in You, increase our love towards others, and unify our hearts and our souls. We honor You Lord. We praise You Lord. We worship You Lord. We celebrate You Lord. We love You Lord – on this day – and with each new day. And we confirm this by saying – AMEN.

(You can set your Communion cups aside until the end of the service.)

As the Bible says in John’s Gospel (6:57), and this is in red letters, so Christ said it Himself. He said:

I live because of the living Father who sent Me. In the same way – anyone who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

Receiving the body and blood of Christ during Communion means that we are embracing the life-giving sacrifice of Jesus. We are reminding ourselves that we are His. We belong to Him.

On a personal note – I have a few more Communions to lead here in January and February – maybe in March. After that – someone one else will step-up and lead Communion in their own unique way, as I will only be here a few times a year starting in March. It’s been an honor to lead Communion here for over 7 years. It’s an important part of our Sunday morning worship experience.

OK. My sermon is not yet done. I’ve preached on the first 23 verses of Jude’s letter this morning and last Sunday morning.

We have the final 2 verses to go:

[TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK]

My testimony is featured each week here on #SundayScripture – whether it’s part of a sermon, or just me writing about the events of the past week. Hopefully it encourages you and inspires you to seek the Lord, and get closer to Him with each new day.

If you wish to learn more about the God I know then stay tuned to #SundayScripture. The best is yet to come !

Thank you for reading my blog for this day, and may:

The LORD bless you, and keep you.
The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you.
The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. AMEN.

Tags Bible, Blog, Christ, Christian, Church, God, Jesus, Message, Minister, Ministry, Pastor, Preacher, Reverend, Scripture, Sermon, Sunday

Blogging Driving Geography History Travel

Charles Weigle In Chattanooga

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 18, 2024

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. I think I’ve been to Chattanooga Tennessee once in my lifetime – 32 years ago in July 1992 during a road-trip with my little brother (age 17) from Huntsville Alabama. I picked him up after Space Camp, and we drove to Nashville, Knoxville, Gatlinburg, and Chattanooga Tennessee, and then from there to Atlanta. That was a fun adventure in my 1989 Geo Spectrum that included a trek on U.S. 441 up, through, and down the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. We drove and climbed to the top of Clingmans Dome at 6,643 feet above sea level – the highest point on land that I’ve ever been to.

My retirement hometown of Sebring Florida has a little bit in common with one of those cities above – Chattanooga.

As you may have read previously here on my blog – I’m a docent at the Charles Frederick Weigle House Museum here in Sebring. Come visit us. We’re open 5 days a week – Tuesday to Saturday – from 10 to 3. Before I was a docent – I was a frequent visitor of the historic house, and I was (and still am) intrigued by its 102 years of history. I will never stop studying the history of the house, the man and his wife who lived in the house, and the city that they called home.

Dr. Weigle – an evangelist and songwriter – lived in the house from the time it was built brand-new in 1922 – until 1951 – when he “retired” to Chattanooga Tennessee. I put “retired” in quotes because he actually went back to work up there in his early-80s. He and his wife moved there so that he could work at Highland Park Baptist Church. He wanted to spend his remaining years of life near a Bible college campus so that he could help train and inspire young people in the Lord’s work. The church provided Dr. Weigle with a nice apartment, and he lived there until he passed on 15 years later in 1966.

He maintained his residence in Sebring during much of that time. He continued to study the Bible, and teach, and preach, and write music during his last 15 years in both Chattanooga and Sebring.

Less than 2 weeks after his 95TH birthday – he had entered Heaven’s gates to be with the Lord eternally. Today – he’s buried with his second wife Carrie in a cemetery in Sebring – just a couple of miles away from his longtime house by the lake.

Next #TravelThursday – I’m exploring Highlands, Polk, Osceola, and Orange Counties in Central Florida over 7 days with my little brother. And the Weigle House Museum makes an encore appearance. Let’s keep traveling together.

Tags Chattanooga, Florida, Museum, Sebring, Tennessee

Blogging Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 387

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 15, 2024

Every Monday I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay from the previous week. It’s the continuation of a weekly hobby that goes back over 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday July 14TH 2024 – the 387TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	12	Somebody Like Me [2ND week @ # 1]	Caleb & John Ft. Cain
2	3	6	Take You At Your Word	Cody Carnes
3	2	10	Beautiful Life	Pat Barrett
4	5	3	Good Day	Forrest Frank
5	4	12	The Prodigal	Josiah Queen
6	10	2	Nothin’ Sweeter	TobyMac
7	9	4	Miracle Child	Brandon Lake
8	6	32	Lead On Good Shepherd	Patrick Mayberry
9	7	8	God Is With Us	The Afters
10	–	1	Take It All Back	Tauren Wells

# 1 This Week In:
2023 – “Holy Forever” – Chris Tomlin
2022 – “Getting Started” – Jeremy Camp
2021 – “Be Alright” – Evan Craft Ft. Danny Gokey
2020 – “Keep Me In The Moment” – Jeremy Camp
2019 – “Prize Worth Fighting For” – Jamie Kimmett
2018 – “Grace Got You” – MercyMe
2017 – “Wonder” – Hillsong United

TOP 40 OF 400 – This October I’ll present my Top 40 songs of the first 400 weeks of this chart. Micah Tyler has 4 out of his 7 hits on the Top 40. He’ll likely enter my chart next week with his 8TH hit.

Be blessed my friends ! May our God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.